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stone above mentioned." In a field behind Clulow Cross there 

 is to be seen a stone circle about five yards in diameter, with 

 a broad upright slab of gritstone placed in the centre of it. 

 Mr. Sainter and his friends were highly gratified by the 

 discovery, about three feet below the surface, of several pieces 

 of charcoal, along with stones blackened by fire, and also a 

 sepulchral urn which contained the burnt bones of a young 

 child. The burial may be assigned to a very old date, proba- 

 bly prehistoric, or anterior to the period of the occupation of 

 this country by the Romans. We may here notice also a 

 very singular stone by the road-side in this neighbourhood, 

 which is called by Archaeologists " a Maenhir"— merestone, 

 or longstone, which is also of ancient British origin." I have 

 said in a former paper that many of the cairns on the 

 Nilgiris contained apparent relies of Buddhism and accounted 

 for this fact. The following description of the Buddhist 

 cemeteries in Ceylon bears comparison wit 1 ", some of the cairns 

 in Southern India. In the latter we see the. flat stone cover- 

 ing the cist, environed by upright stones, in place of the pillars 

 of the former. " In a Singhalese cemetery may be perceived 

 a variety of miniature dagobas : if the little earthern mound 

 raised over the ashes of the dead be encircled with a row of 

 stones, we see the origin of the projecting basement, if the 

 tomb be that of a headman or high priest we may find it cased 

 with stone, and perhaps surrounded with a row of pillars : 

 on all these we find an aewaria branch planted, which after 

 takirjg root and shooting out its cluster of leaves gives the 

 semblance of the spire, and its spreading termination." 



Sankagiri drug. — This hill fort was once a place of consider- 

 able importance. Within the works are several tombs, one of 

 Lieutenant Robert Waters, 25th M. N. I., who died in 1820 ; 

 another to Lieutenant W. Ash, who died in 1808, and the name 

 of Wilson Riviere I deciphered on another, he died in 1807. 

 The slabs of some of the other tombs no longer remain, pro- 



